Posts from ‘Brian's Karaoke World Tour’
Karaoke World Tour – Vietnam
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Part Two of Brian’s Karaoke World Tour takes you to Vietnam – although it does seem to have much the same storyline as Part One (ie: lots of drinking and singing). I promise that not ALL my Karaoke World Tour stories involve me getting drunk.
I was in Hue in January 2003 as part of the research for the Tet celebrations (Vietnamese New Year) for my book The Naked Man Festival. I was on one my usual aimless wanders down side streets looking for the ‘real’ Hue where I found Tet celebrations in full swing as I peeped into people’s houses and saw lots of card games going on and plenty of drinking. I was… (read more)
Karaoke World Tour – USA
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
My name is Brian Thacker and I am a karaoke addict. I do love my Karaoke and in my travels I’m always on the look out for a karaoke bar so I can add another country to my World Karaoke Tour. I’m now up to 29 countries that I’ve sung karaoke in (yes, and I know it’s sad). So, as a special treat to you dear readers I’m going to do a semi-regular blog (and mostly when I’ve got nothing else to talk about) about some of my karaoke experiences.
I first discovered karaoke back in 1989 at a bar in Waikiki. Actually it was the large sign… (read more)